The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations: 1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law 2) Elon Musk out of government 3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance. - ThreadSky

jonmladd.bsky.social • 4 days ago

The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations:
1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law
2) Elon Musk out of government
3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.

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Johnson needs Dem votes to keep the government open.

AND he wants those votes to legitimate Elon's lawless destruction.

This is the Democrats' best chance to educate the public about the coup in progress.

Zero votes for Elon's coup must be our demand.

Right?

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mdpoppa.bsky.social•4 days ago

2 and 3, absolutely.
1, well, can ask all they want, even codify it, but this admin will just do things anyway and depend on our slow legal system to make it not matter

elvis15.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's almost a if *gasp* Dems do have some power and should at like it!

hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, but imagine the Dems actually doing any of this. I wish they would but

derpyforcongress.bsky.social•2 days ago

They literally already are doing this. Jefferies has stated that there will be no Democratic votes on the draconian Republican budget unless big changes are made.

keepingtherepublic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Dems need a daily press conference with Chris Murphy or Pete Buttigieg to hammer the message relentlessly: Musk is a threat to everyone and Dems will fight for your rights & refuse to cooperate until he leaves

kimoco.bsky.social•4 days ago

Republicans will never agree to any of this

sharilyn.bsky.social•4 days ago

vivasisyphus.bsky.social•3 days ago

The original post doesn’t square with the news today, although I think all of your suggestions are still valid.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-look-pass-stopgap-funding-bill-avert-shutdown-speaker-johnson-says-nbc-2025-03-02/

skyline4438.bsky.social•3 days ago

A stop gap bill pushes the actual budget down the line a few months to allow Musk more time to do damage. At some point, certain Republicans are going to draw a line on current spending levels and want a new budget. Anything supported by all Republicans is going to be poison for swing districts.

lainiew24.bsky.social•3 days ago

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proggrrl.bsky.social•3 days ago

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csweden.bsky.social•4 days ago

close the government- don’t keep giving the Republicans power!

dorksideofblack.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah but instead 5 of them will just flip with no concessions and the budget will go through anyway.

reneeblrod.bsky.social•4 days ago

Those are very smart asks. I probably shouldn't hold my breath though, right?

feralhattie.bsky.social•4 days ago

You should absolutely hold your breath—insisting that we have salient and appropriate and legal demands that *must* be met is righteous. Don’t doom! Dooming gets us nowhere.

thomasav.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah but you know @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social isn't going to do that because he's a complicit loser.

khartsun.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also, Russell Vought out of government

walterdragon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Republicans are just going to shut down the government and never make the slightest effort to reopen it. It's DOGE's mass firing by other means.

ridiculata.com•4 days ago

The Dems' retort to the "waste and abuse" line should be, "PROVE IT!"

Make the GOP prove that the cuts they are making have resulted in eliminating waste & abuse and not valid govt services. Thousands of cuts should have resulted in thousands of verifiable examples of waste and abuse.

rockwils1.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm sure they are sharpening their.....bottle opener.

smtuffy.bsky.social•4 days ago

C’mon, if your top ask is “please stop doing crimes” then you’ve probably already lost the negotiation

conejooaks.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why not impeachment?

various-threnodies.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's no world where that happens. Asks need to be something that can plausibly be delivered.

conejooaks.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why should Dems participate in a single thing short of impeachment?

various-threnodies.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think Trump should be impeached, but ~50% of voters just voted to send him to the WH. Impeachment isn't happening. So, let's try to get actually achievable concessions instead of doing pie-in-the-sky stuff.

conejooaks.bsky.social•4 days ago

There are no achievable concessions from people who don’t respect the rule of law. They’ll just treat it like another one of their lies.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is why the original post notes that one of the non-negotiable lines for Dems should be a short-term funding, so that the WH has to behave to keep getting more funding.

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